Slow connection?

Hi im running a wireless peer-to-peer network at home, both cards are 802.11 b/g cards and for some reason i cant get the network to run at anything faster than 11mb, i cant seem to find anything in the configuration about the speed, i have tried the windows zero config utility and the software that came shipped with the cards.HELP!!!

Hi there
Is 11mbps the wireless connect speed or throughput? If it is through put then that may be about right for a basic adhoc wireless network connection. This is because standard wireless is half duplex. Even with a standard access point and one client the max throughput is only about 22mbps when connected at 54mbps. I don't think adhoc mode has as good control over the data flow as an infrastructure wireless network so 11mbps might be it.
Cheers
Dale

11mpbs is the maximum speed of a wireless B network. Make sure you've got your wirless AP set to 802.11g Only, or 802.11 B + G

Yeha both cards are set to 802.11 b/g i have tried setting them to g only but that doesnt seem to help, the throughput is running at about 5mb but the actual connection speed is 11mb. I have tried everything! moved the pci card to a different slot and reinstalled both sets of drivers and utils, even using *koff* zero configuration, but they are just not playing the game, weird thing is it was running at 54mb then without rebooting or changing anything it dropped to 11mb. Go figure?

Most cards let you force the standard or speed under their properties window in Device Manager. It's odd that setting them to 802.11g-only should allow them to operate at 11Mbps as this speed is not supported by the 802.11g standard (12Mbps is though).

5Mbps is a pretty typical figure for an 11Mbps connection so it would seem the link quality is fine. Try changing the channel anyway just in case there is intererence.

Also make sure you use some form of encryption (WPA/WEP) in case there is a rouge 802.11b device joining to the network causing your cards to slow down for it.

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Jeremy

Marlborough WiFi Project

Hi there, are they the same type of card? maybe one of them does not completely support the IEEE 802.11g spec, so they both fall back to 802.11b. As nzlamb said 11mbps connect speed is only supported by 802.11b.
Good luck
Dale